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Manjeet Dhillon

Tracing how ideas, art forms and sacred objects travelled across Asia, and what they became at every stop.

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KL Book Club

(Bujang Masa Lalu stops, tucks his hands behind his back, and adopts the posture of a man about to discuss something dear to his heart.)

Now this one, I'm rather fond of. Tucked behind the Selangor Club, practically hiding from it, if you...

15 days ago
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Selangor Recreation Club (SRC)

(Bujang Masa Lalu rubs his hands together, clearly delighted, this is his favourite kind of story.)

Right, gather round, because this one’s rather fun. Kuala Lumpur’s social scene in the late 1800s had a strict pecking order, and if you th...

15 days ago
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Government Printing Office

(Bujang Masa Lalu shuffles a few steps along, stops, and squints at the next building.)

Right. Keep up. We’re not done yet. This one has a few plot twists. So hold your horses.

Next door to the bank, and equally unbothered by anyone’s at...

16 days ago

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China

(Bujang Masa Lalu stops mid-step, tilts his hat back, and stares up at the domes.)

Ah. Here she is.

Go on, have a look. Moss climbing the walls, plants doing exactly as they please, domes still holding their shape purely out of spite. Mos...

18 days ago
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Former FMS Railway Office (National Textile Museum)

Now, look at this elegant striped fellow on the corner. Why, it’s our National Textile Museum. Now, much before songket and batik moved in, this building spent much of its life dealing with locomotives, timetables and railway paperwork. Riv...

20 days ago
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    Researcher, writer and incurably curious reader of culture. Following the journeys of people, goods and ideas that shaped maritime Asia.

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